WASHINGTON — Seven million people signed up, so there is an appetite for President Barack Obama's health care law, but that doesn't guarantee success for the country's newest social program.Big challenges are lurking for the next enrollment season, which starts Nov. 15. Chief among them are keeping premiums and other consumer costs in check, and overhauling an enrollment process th...

As noted before, it will take years to fully implement the ACA. Only after all of its provisions are in effect and various refinements have been made will we be able to fully understand its benefits. Already there is statistical evidence that the number of uninsured and the cost of health care has declined after just six months. Those trends will likely continue. We will also likely see a stabilization or reduction of insurance premiums for the first time in decades, coupled with improved public health, longer lifespans and fewer personal bankruptcies caused by medical bills.

Within ten years, the ACA will be shown to be the most beneficial and transformative legislation in improving the American quality of life since passage of the Social Security Act in 1935. Interestingly, the GOP bitterly opposed that too.

Not a chance. The GOP has already given up on that idea. They aren't going to reverse the progress already made, and they don't want to try to explain to millions of people why they can't have insurance or why the insurance companies should again be allowed to make life and death decisions based on profitability alone.

As I've said before, within a few years, Republicans will be claiming credit for the great success the ACA has become. Their hypocrisy has no limits.

Republican opponents of the law keep pushing for a repeal, but as millions of people obtain insurance, how long can the party's strategy remain a politically viable option

How many of those millions of people that obtain insurance can tell us what they have regarding that insurance?

How long can a party's strategy be to delay or wave elements of a law they thing will hurt them politically?

Now that the Obama administration got the number they stated was needed, and was there any doubt they would get the number, the administration should FULLY implement the law say by May 1st, that's what should happen next.

If fully implementing a law is harmful in the eyes of those who voted and signed the law, what's that say about the law?

Funny how the AP forgot to mention the fixes the Republicans have passed in the House, only to die in the Senate. Such as the bill to change a workweek in 0bamacare from 30 to 40 hours, which will die in the Senate so 0bama will not have to veto it. Democrats do not care if your hours and salary are cut by 25% a month. Its just another incentive to NOT work.

Mark Udall, when asked if he would vote for 0bamacare AGAIN. "I would do it again, Yes, I would."

Blue Nation wrote:As noted before, it will take years to fully implement the ACA. Only after all of its provisions are in effect and various refinements have been made will we be able to fully understand its benefits. Already there is statistical evidence that the number of uninsured and the cost of health care has declined after just six months. Those trends will likely continue. We will also likely see a stabilization or reduction of insurance premiums for the first time in decades, coupled with improved public health, longer lifespans and fewer personal bankruptcies caused by medical bills.

Within ten years, the ACA will be shown to be the most beneficial and transformative legislation in improving the American quality of life since passage of the Social Security Act in 1935. Interestingly, the GOP bitterly opposed that too.

Blue Nation wrote:As noted before, it will take years to fully implement the ACA. Only after all of its provisions are in effect and various refinements have been made will we be able to fully understand its benefits. Already there is statistical evidence that the number of uninsured and the cost of health care has declined after just six months. Those trends will likely continue. We will also likely see a stabilization or reduction of insurance premiums for the first time in decades, coupled with improved public health, longer lifespans and fewer personal bankruptcies caused by medical bills.

Within ten years, the ACA will be shown to be the most beneficial and transformative legislation in improving the American quality of life since passage of the Social Security Act in 1935. Interestingly, the GOP bitterly opposed that too.

When Soc Sec came into being there were 30-35 working people supporting each recipient. Today we're somewhere around 2-3 working people supporting each recipient. No Democrat seems capable of seeing that or can muster the slightest interest in reform.

ACA is no different. We have a group of idealogues who think they are smart enough to manage 18-20% of our 14 Trillion dollar economy when none of them has ever held a real job. These political hacks, grifters, and crooks think that you are not smart enough to manage your own affairs and only they, the ones in power, are capable of running them for you.

Krushchev told Kennedy in 1960 that "we will bury you". Turns out that it's the Dems that are doing that.

We are in desperate need of a return to free market capitalism. Free people making free choices is the only path to prosperity. Collectivism and central management are the paths followed by many failed states, the former Soviet Union being the most glaring example.

Obama understands his constituents perfectly. They don't care what he does to the Constitution, the economy or his "enemies," as long as he provides them with gay marriage, legalized weed and a recharged EBT card the first of every month.

Ahh, the good ole days. Back to debtor's prison, the rack, the iron maiden, thumbscrews. What nostalgia.

Maybe a little drawing and quartering will bring folks to the registration site.

What think you?

Obama understands his constituents perfectly. They don't care what he does to the Constitution, the economy or his "enemies," as long as he provides them with gay marriage, legalized weed and a recharged EBT card the first of every month.

The only thing that should get repealed is the ignorance of those wanting to deny health care to their fellow citizens.

When you calculate all the money that's been poured down the drain so far it would have been cheaper and far more efficient if Obama had simply purchased insurance for the 45 million uninsured and left it at that.

The only people that are morons enough to believe that ACA is for the good of the people are the voters who brought us this clown.

ACA has nothing to do with benefiting people. It has everything to do with controlling them.

Obama understands his constituents perfectly. They don't care what he does to the Constitution, the economy or his "enemies," as long as he provides them with gay marriage, legalized weed and a recharged EBT card the first of every month.

Blue Nation wrote:As noted before, it will take years to fully implement the ACA. Only after all of its provisions are in effect and various refinements have been made will we be able to fully understand its benefits. Already there is statistical evidence that the number of uninsured and the cost of health care has declined after just six months. Those trends will likely continue. We will also likely see a stabilization or reduction of insurance premiums for the first time in decades, coupled with improved public health, longer lifespans and fewer personal bankruptcies caused by medical bills.

Within ten years, the ACA will be shown to be the most beneficial and transformative legislation in improving the American quality of life since passage of the Social Security Act in 1935. Interestingly, the GOP bitterly opposed that too.

It will take decades, if Obama keeps delaying and changing the law. Why do all the things that republicans oppose, always end up being troubled or non-sustainable policies or programs? Do you think that maybe that's the reason they opposed them in the first place?

Blue Nation wrote:As noted before, it will take years to fully implement the ACA. Only after all of its provisions are in effect and various refinements have been made will we be able to fully understand its benefits. Already there is statistical evidence that the number of uninsured and the cost of health care has declined after just six months. Those trends will likely continue. We will also likely see a stabilization or reduction of insurance premiums for the first time in decades, coupled with improved public health, longer lifespans and fewer personal bankruptcies caused by medical bills.

Within ten years, the ACA will be shown to be the most beneficial and transformative legislation in improving the American quality of life since passage of the Social Security Act in 1935. Interestingly, the GOP bitterly opposed that too.

Premiums have gone up every years for decades. Is that news to you? Already the rate of increase has slowed due at least in part to the ACA. At the same time, the number of uninsured Americans has declined. Those are two very good signs, but that won't stop the Right from hoping for failure.